AI Technologies , AI-Based Cyber Defense/Cyber Offense

Securing the Cloud Journey, Staying Ahead of Evolving Threats and Risks

Cloud security is still a weakness for many enterprises. Misconfigurations mistakes made during cloud migration are still creating major vulnerabilities that can be exploited by cybercriminals. A panel of experts from Honeywell, AWS, and Qualys discussed how organizations are solving these problems - and tapping into the latest artificial intelligence tools for cloud defense.

"It's just the novelty of migrating to the cloud," said Nayeem Islam, vice president of product management for TotalCloud at Qualys. "I think that will get better over time, so we're seeing a lot of interest in tools that can manage essential migration to the cloud and what are really known as basic misconfigurations. There's a lot of demand for that, but it's still new and it's a challenge."

Cybercriminals are using emerging AI tools to create new threats for enterprises, which means security operations teams should be deploying AI technology for detection and response.

"AI's ability to process massive amounts of data, identify certain patterns and adapt to those new threats has led to improvement in areas of threat detection, automated response and going into the predictive security side, and automated patching - those are the main areas," said Corey Beck, senior solutions architect at AWS.

"It's exciting to see AI in the technologies we use to speed up the work that we do at the same quality," said James DeLuccia, product security chief at Honeywell, and a CyberEdBoard member. This includes "expanding it into areas that would be nice to check that you don't often get to check unless there is a significant product development window to do it in or you have other advantages." "Usually those things take a lot of time, and pulling in AI for some of those other areas in the beginning is exciting for us," DeLuccia said

In this video interview with Information Security Media Group, DeLuccia, Islam and Beck also discussed:

• The role of AI in enhancing cloud security and automating threat detection;
• The importance of zero trust architecture in securing hybrid and multi-cloud environments;
• How to address misconfigurations during cloud migration to eliminate security vulnerabilities.

At Honeywell, DeLuccia nurtures a $7.5B portfolio, inspiring 3,600 engineers to reach new heights of innovation. His empathetic approach, coupled with stringent performance standards, consistently yields multi-million dollar impacts while fostering a culture of trust and continuous improvement. He is a member of the CyberEdBoard.

Islam is a recognized expert in AI. He pioneered the use of AI in cloud security and mobile phones, creating commercially successful and sustainable products that have transformed the mobile communications and cloud security industries.

With more than 12 years of experience in IT, Beck works with customers across manufacturing, aerospace, buildings and healthcare life sciences sectors to design and implement scalable, secure and cost-effective solutions using AWS services.